A contemporary account of a woman's inner struggle to be valued in a male-dominated society.  A brief encounter between Elisa and a traveling handy man is used to examine the forces that prevent her from becoming what she is capable of being.  The man and Elisa discuss her love for gardening, and he promises to bring her some seeds from another of his customers. As he prepares to leave, Elisa gives him two cuttings from her flowers. But she becomes filled with sorrow as she travels into town with her husband and sees the man has thrown her flowers out of the wagon onto the side of the road. Based on the short story by John Steinbeck.